PD bulwark agst populism - Renzi (5)

De Gasperi used confidence votes says ex-pre,ier

(ANSA) - Rome, October 11 - Those who attack the ruling
centre-left democratic Party (PD) weaken the only "bulwark
against populism," PD leader Matteo Renzi said Wednesday, citing
as populists the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement, former
centre-right premier Silvio Berlusconi and the anti-euro,
anti-migrant Northern League (LN).
Ex-premier Renzi said only the PD could save Italy from a
victory by an alliance between Berlusconi and LN leader Matteo
Salvini, or from a victory by the M5S.
Renzi went on to say the PD's goal was full employment and
the way to create jobs was to cut taxes, the "most
revolutionary" thing that a leftwing party can do.
On the PD-led government's controversial use of confidence
votes to push through an election-law bill, Renzi recalled that
postwar Christian Democrat statesman Alcide De Gasperi used
confidence votes for key policies.
He said that accusations that the so-called Rosatellum bill
was in fact a 'Fascistellum' were "absurd".